CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ii LIST OF FIGURES xi LIST OF MAPS xi LIST OF TABLES xi LIST OF GRAPHS xii 1 INTRODUCTION 2 1.1 Information Technology (IT) in India 2 1.2 Information Technology (IT) in Bangalore, Karnataka 5 1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 8 1.4 AIM: 9 1.5 OBJECTIVES: 9 1.6 SCOPE AND LIMITATION 10 1.7 METHODOLOGY 11 2 LITERATURE REVIEW and CASE STUDIES 13 2.1 Industrial Clusters 13 2.2 Impact on Urban Spatial growth 14 2.3 Impact on Housing 15 3 BENGALURU- CITY PROFILE 19 3.1 Brief history of the city 20 4 DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS 26 4.1 Population and density 27 4.2 Migration and Literacy 30 5 LEGAL ASPECTS 33 5.1 POLICY INITIATIVES- Growth stimulator 33 5.1.1 Karnataka Industrial Policy 2009-14 33 5.1.2 Information and Communications Technology Policy of 1997-2011 34 5.2 SPATIAL GROWTH AND URBAN PLANNING OF THE CITY- (impact of population growth and IT policy initiatives) 35 5.2.1 Earlier City Planning Efforts 37 5.2.2 Comprehensive Development Plan-1984 (CDP) 39 5.2.3 Revised CDP – 1995 39 5.2.4 Master Plan -2015 41 5.2.5 Changes in Urban land use 42 6 REAL ESTATE OVERVIEW- Bangalore 52 6.1 Rise in real estate values- Land prices 54 6.2 Micro markets of Bengaluru 57 7 STUDY AREAS- WHITEFILED AND ELECTRONIC CITY 60 7.1 Whitefield 62 7.1.1 Residential real estate 65 7.1.2 Real estate values 68 7.2 Electronic city 70 7.2.1 Residential real estate 73 7.2.2 Real estate values 74 8 CONCLUSION 77 9 RECOMMENDATIONS 81 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY 84